Today, I was bored, so I decided to go down to the computer room and watch some TV. It was the first time I had watched TV in well over a year. Caught the tail end of Access Hollywood, then switched and watched a bit of the new Survivor.

The thing that I kept noticing, and that eventually drove me crazy enough to stop watching (after only about half an hour), was the number of cuts shows and commercials nowadays have. You’d think there’s a new FCC regulation that you can’t have a single shot longer than a second or something, for fear of offending someone.

Seriously, I think the only shots I saw that lasted longer than literally a second were commercials where the background was changing constantly (annoying), shots where a single person was talking to the camera (Survivor interviews, at least… the Access Hollywood interviews constantly cut between shots even while they were interviewing someone…), and the long scenic shots in Survivor like where they focus on a bug and then shift the focus out to the tribe banner or something. (The new Survivor intro is particularly guilty of this… even when showing the people, they show at least two shots of each competitor in the 1 second of screen time they give them.)

I noticed this a while back in music videos as well… the new (and old) music videos for Daughtry, for example, feature almost-constant cuts between scenes.

Has our society really gotten so ADD that we require constant changes in imagery to remain engrossed?
Or have shows always been like this, but I’m just now getting old and weird enough to notice?

So this weekend was full of worry, worry, worry oh god worry.
Had a doctor’s appointment today and everything was better. Yay doctors. I have a followup appointment in a month, but he doesn’t expect any issues.

Relatedly, I have to say that I’m a big fan of Kaiser. This makes two randomly-assigned doctors now, and both have been extremely knowledgable and friendly and approachable. Neither rushes you, and they both joked and chatted and generally made you feel at ease. I also like the convenience of having everything there… last time, I headed down one floor to get blood drawn, and it took very little time due to the HUGE number of blood-drawing stations they had.

Besides that, today has apparently been SPEND MONEY OMGZ day. This morning I bought this 1TB HD. I maybe should have waited until Black Friday, but I kind of need it now (my external drive is down to 4GB of free space), and it’s a good price anyway (assuming I get the rebate sent in and such). I can always buy another one during Black Friday if they’re really cheap. And if not, I can sleep in instead. Yay.

There was also the $15 copay for my doctor’s visit. Not a lot, but meh.

There was also also going to Best Buy (which was right there) and picking up the complete Firefly series. That’s another chunk of change.

My credit card is sad now. :P I’ve more than doubled the balance on it today.

So that’s been my day. Yay my day.

Edit: Yes, I voted. I voted by mail a month ago.
Also, now that I’ve actually updated my spending spreadsheet, looks like I nearly tripled my credit card balance today. Awesome. :X

Also, Maine, WTF is wrong with you? This is upsetting.

There was more karaoke.

I posted a “combined” gallery of randomness from the previous few days to photos 2. It includes random portraits of Charles and Sharon, sandwich and games night, the QE Halloween birthday party thing, and karaoke tonight.
You can go view photos there.

Mostly, I just wanted to make this entry for this.